The Wayward Moon
By: Janice Weizman
4.06
Format: 449 pages, Paperback
First published in 2012, the award-winning novel The Wayward Moon tells the story of a young Jewish…
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1. The Museum of Extraordinary Things
By: Alice Hoffman
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The only way to understand a river is to jump into it."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
"A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
"The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
"In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question."-Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things
2. The Sisters Weiss
By: Naomi Ragen
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox fami… read more
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3. The Wolf Hunt
By: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a… read more
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- fiction
- jewish
4. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- jewish
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
5. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
6. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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7. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
8. The St. Ambrose School for Girls
By: Jessica Ward
3.28
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
Heathers meets The Secret History in this thrilling coming-of-age novel set in a boarding school wh… read more
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- fiction
9. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
10. Good Night, Irene
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.14
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene
11. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
12. The Hebrew Teacher
By: Maya Arad
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
13. The Phoenix Bride
By: Natasha Siegel
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A passionate tale of plague, fire, and forbidden love in seventeenth-century London from the acclai… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
14. More Than I Love My Life
By: David Grossman
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffer… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
15. Once We Were Home
By: Jennifer Rosner
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , com… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
16. The Last Animal
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.47
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more
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- fiction
17. Shmutz
By: Felicia Berliner
3.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more
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- jewish
18. Rebel Daughter
By: Lori Banov Kaufmann
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Red Tent and The Dovekeepers! Winner of a 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalis… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
"Let me tell you something: once before-- a long, long time ago--the people of Jerusalem were defeated. The first Temple, the one King Solomon built, was destroyed. The people were taken captive to Ba…"-Lori Banov Kaufmann, Rebel Daughter
19. Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature
By: Jennifer Lang
4.64
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
★★★★★ “For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.” R… read more
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20. The Wayward Moon
By: Janice Weizman
4.06
Format: 449 pages, Paperback
First published in 2012, the award-winning novel The Wayward Moon tells the story of a young Jewish… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- jewish
21. Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses
By: Jennifer Lang
4.77
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
★★★★★ “Lyrical. Poignant. Funny. Captures the essence of living as a perpetual outsider in Israel.”… read more
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